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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






2. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes






3. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer






4. Wide Range Achievement Test






5. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together






6. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with

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7. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






8. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






9. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.






10. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.






11. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.






12. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.






13. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.






14. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu






15. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






16. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally






17. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)






18. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






19. Feeling through fingertips






20. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language






21. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






22. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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23. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






24. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words






25. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes






26. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds






27. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability






28. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.






29. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






30. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






31. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.






32. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.






33. Final stable syllable

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34. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.

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35. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






36. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.






37. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)






38. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.






39. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






40. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy






41. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.






42. r-controlled syllable






43. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading






44. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies

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45. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.






46. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.






47. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat






48. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin






49. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi






50. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound